Description:Part 2: Muscles
Continuing working on the same file with the action photo as your base layer, and your skeleton in the middle, draw the major muscle groups that move the skeleton as a final overlay. Feature the most visible and important muscle groups for artists and animators. Show perspective in the shading as the muscles wrap around the body, the direction they lie and the deformations caused by the effort of the pose. Use colour variation to differentiate between the bellies of the muscles and the ligaments and tendons that attach them to the bones.

Aim to make your drawing a portfolio piece that shows both your knowledge and your artistic skill. The drawing can be very detailed or you may generalize forms as shown in the study above.

This layer should be saved separately from the skeleton file:

tdonovan_anatomy_002.jpg

Please hand in both the skeleton and muscle study together by FTP by the deadline, October 25th <--NEW!

Looking for a good muscular system study reference? -- ok, maybe more 'memorable' than good? Click here!No, seriously, these are better - Front, Back